Patriots Honor 2017 Myra Kraft Community MVP Winners

BOSTON (CBS) — For one day at least, Tom Brady was not the MVP being honored by the New England Patriots.

On Thursday, Robert Kraft and the Patriots honored the 26 winners of the 2017 Myra Kraft Community MVP Awards at Gillette Stadium. They’re each being recognized for their volunteer work to help better their communties, something Kraft said was close to his late wife’s heart.

“She always, throughout our marriage, stressed to me how the unsung heroes are the volunteers that work in all these groups throughout America,” Kraft said on Thursday.

The Kraft family and New England Patriots Charitable Foundation will donate $200,000 to local nonprofits represented by this year’s MVPs.

After they finished up the final day of minicamp, Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman joined this year’s MVPs for a group photo: